Kite Energy Fundamentals and Applications
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M600 Makani Power's work-in-progress hybrid
aircraft, a captive powered helicopter featuring power-off electrical
generation by flygen kite-plane tactics, is with an aim to generate 600 kW,
thus the name; the model M600 sits between Wing 7 (30 kW) and an envisioned 5
MW airborne turbine of like hybrid makeup.
More ||
Paper, June 2013 on a sub-project started October 16, 2012;
design expo for the sub-project on May 31, 2013. ||

machine language "Thus
Natural Language becomes a Machine Object following usage in Knowledge-Based
Computing, particularly predicate-calculus." And, "... its
pseudo-code in anticipation of consistent technical use either in training or
computation, where one word (or compounded word) is a standard formal object."
DS

The Magnus effect develops relatively weak
force because it is merely the surface drag effect of a rotating cylinder or
sphere. It is a pitiful or fraudulent basis for a wind power, but does
usefully curve the flight of balls in sports like ping-pong or baseball. The
Flettner Rotor is a vertical Magnus Rotor used as a failed powered "sailing"
rig.

A Savonius Turbine develops weak force in Magnus fashion by the "exaggerated
texture" of drag buckets. Sadly the return side drag is high due to the
buckets returning in headwind, even though the spinning Savonius looks quite
powerful.

A Darrieus Turbine develops more force for the amount of material by using
airfoils and not having the bluff-body drag of a solid center, but its still
poorly competitive with the modern HAWT, especially on a weight-to power
basis, although the Flexor Turbine updates the Darrieus as a lighter
soft-wing.

The Prism
Flip Kite™, like Magenn (anybody remember them?),
both wrongly invoke the Magnus Effect in marketing, seemingly as a
"magnificent" label. Magenn's design is a Savonius drag bucket affair, and the
Flip Kite™ is not a cylinder at all, but a flat wing doing tight
backwards loops around an empty center-of-rotation. Such a wing can be best
described as a horizontal Darrieus variant. The clever part is that gets a bit
of extra efficiency by creating self-lift as a kite, using a Froude Number
effect (gravity as a return force for a short vertical sweep). Given that a
HAWT gives up some efficiency angled for self-lift as an autogyro, the two
concepts tend to approach a similar performance level.

Magnus-effect dirigible kytoon
One version is to have aloft recharge of hydrogen buoyancy gass via aloft
making of the hydrogn from atmospheric moisture via use of energy from one or
both of solar radiation and kite energy.

manualAWE manual AWECS
manualAWECS
These systems are fully manually controlled by a human pilot without any
automatic controls. [Differently are AWECS being driven by
programs without human intervention--except by safety-critical manual
override--during a flight session. ]

matched kites flying side by side "To
add to Bob's suggestion for a direct experimental method to quantify kite
dynamics, KiteLab has long proposed using matched kites flying side by side,
with minor changes made to one. By flying long enough one gets a sound
indication of the value of the change made, a sort of empirical genetic
algorithm." ds

measures Kite energy systems' parameters can
be measured.What measures are considered important?

measures of kite element efficiency

mechanical diode
"A "mechanical diode" is a one-way drive like a sprag, clutch, or ratchet. Used
with a spring return, or opposed, they can be well-suited to convert kite tug
cycles into rotary power. Such an AWES can be a single tiny unit, but the
potential exists for large arrays of semi-chaotic kite elements to collectively
drive common shafting well into gigawatt scale.

"Science from the string of a kite; 4 October 2000" SCIENCE
COLUMNS IN SEGUIN GAZETTE-ENTERPRISE. Series began 10 January 1999. The
column is being expanded to include the San Antonio Express-News. Forrest M.
Mims III

Monopede is a kite system having exactly one main tether to the wing set. In
such naming, we see n-pede kite systems with n assigned a positive integer.
Then centipede, millipede, etc.
Discuss.

mono-skin wing See single-skin.
Consider David Barish. And John Travell. And Francis Rogallo. And NASA wing.
And Pere Casellas in Barretina HyperLite. And OZONE experimentations.
And Dave Culp in OutLeader.

mooring moorings, anchoring, anchors, mooring
systems
K: {W1,T,W2} Moorings can be seen as an essential part
of AWES, kite-energy systems, kites, kite; mooring may be seen as W1 which is a
wing set giving reaction to forces in T from play with W2 set of wings.
W1 moors W2, W2 moors W1; the T permits the mooring to occur.

mount, to mount "caused
the kite to mount" (Simpson, 1905). The wing and tether of the kite
system would climb higher in the sky.

mountain board, moutainboard, wheeled board
drawn by kite system

mounted kites

mounting tab

moving-anchor AWECS, moving kite anchor,
moving root of kite system, Moving-Root Kite (MRK) System by Dennis Stevens in
Project Sea Tree, etc. Wings involved are scalable with use of any
type of kite or kytoon wing from toy to utility-scale super wings. Anchors of
tethered wings may be anything that provides resistance resulting in a
maintenance of tether-set tension enabling the kiting. Distinguish powered
anchors from anchors that move because of the kiting system; anchors may be
most simple and stay fixed or may stay moving with simple drag downwind; or
anchors may themselves veer crosswind as in tacking or railed karting or
paravaning or tacking.

See Project
Sea Tree that focuses on rigid large wings and high speed crosswinding
for pulling land or sea items for generating power.

Cabled carts, railed carts, hydrofoils, paravanes, etc. form the moving
anchors or moving roots to tethered wings. Generators or pumps are driven
either directly at axle or directly using turbine in air or water, or driven by
use of driving lines to fixed-stationed generators while moving anchors
operate.

See the two-kite free-flight technologies. See Dale C. Kramer
patent application on the two-kite free-flight system. Such branch of
kiting haS movement of the terminal wings, either wing may be considered the
anchor or root to the other wing.